Mary Breckinridge Pageants

Mary Breckinridge Pageants This page is dedicated to beauty pageants held in Leslie County by Beautiful Me Productions.

03/12/2026

Help with the park, a great way for community service hours for Mary Breckinridge and Christmas In The Mountains pageant titles. The park means a lot to so many in the community.

Community Service Spotlight with Madaline & Taylor your 2025 Miss Mary Breckinridge and Miss Mary Breckinridge Princess....
03/10/2026

Community Service Spotlight with Madaline & Taylor your 2025 Miss Mary Breckinridge and Miss Mary Breckinridge Princess.

Reading to students for Reading Across America.

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Mary Breckinridge Pageants

Community Service Spotlight with Lauren! Last week Lauren started some of her community service hours representing her M...
03/10/2026

Community Service Spotlight with Lauren! Last week Lauren started some of her community service hours representing her Mary Breckinridge title with Beautiful Me Productions.

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Mary Breckinridge Pageants

03/10/2026

Great opportunity!

Spay and neuter save lives.

03/05/2026

The park is closed until further notice for flood damage repair.

02/17/2026

Remembering Our Mountain Angel on Her Birthday.

February is a special time in the Wendover community. It’s a time of remembrance and appreciation as we honor Mrs. Breckinridge’s birthday. On February 17, 1881, Mary Carson Breckinridge was born into an affluent family in Memphis, Tennessee.

By her mid thirties, she experienced three unimaginable tragedies with the deaths of her husband and two young children. As a result, helping children and families became her life mission.

In 1925, Mrs. Breckinridge began the Committee for Mothers and Babies, later to be renamed The Frontier Nursing Service, or FNS, for short. The purpose of the FNS was to provide quality healthcare to families, reducing the mortality rates in infants and mothers in the Appalachian Mountains. Mrs. Breckinridge and her team of Nurse-Midwives traveled by horseback to mountain homes on the rugged terrain of rural eastern Kentucky—the saddlebags on the horses carrying all the medical supplies a family would need for home births or general ailments.

In addition to healthcare, Mrs. Breckinridge provided health education to families and coordinated events that taught valuable life skills—skills that are still being passed down to this day. She was looked upon as a Mountain Angel for all she did to positively improve healthcare and living conditions in Appalachia.

In those days, a traditional mountain home consisted of a one or two-room cabin with newspaper covering the interior walls. If you visit Wendover today, you’ll see a replica of a traditional mountain cabin the Frontier Nursing Service would have come across. In addition, you’ll also see an FNS Summer Riding Uniform, as well as other era appropriate items in the room.

Wendover has a rich history waiting to be explored. Whether you live in Leslie County or across the country, make plans to schedule a tour of our historic treasure, Mary Breckinridge’s Wendover. You’ll be glad you did! 💙

Congratulations to our Leslie County contestants on your supreme titles at Meowy Winter in London, KY! Beautiful Me Prod...
02/16/2026

Congratulations to our Leslie County contestants on your supreme titles at Meowy Winter in London, KY!
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